Awards and Publications
Fall 2006 Student and Faculty Awards and Publications
Dr. Vineet Arora, MD, AM
Dean for Curricular Innovation, Dr. Vineet Arora, MD, AM received the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Award for her research evaluating the quality of care of vulnerable hospitalized elders. In addition, Dr. Arora’s research entitled "The Effects of On-Duty Napping on Intern Sleep Time and Fatigue," appeared in the June issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dean of Medical Education, Holly J. Humphrey, MD and faculty member David Meltzer, MD, PhD were co-authors along with medical students Carrie Dunphy and Vivian Chang.
Comfort Ibe
Current third year student Comfort Ibe was recently named a 2006 Minority Scholars Award recipient by the AMA Foundation. As one of only 10 medical student recipients in the country, she will receive a $10,000 scholarship in recognition of her excellence as a medical student and outstanding promise for a future career in medicine. For more information, please visit Student Named AMA Foundation Minority Scholar.
Holly J. Humphrey, MD
Dean for Medical Education Holly J. Humphrey, MD has been elected Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Directors. The announcement was made at a meeting held in conjunction with ABIM's 70th anniversary. Dr. Humphrey's one-year term became effective July 1. For additional information, please see the ABIM press release. In addition, Dr. Humphrey’s reflection on the career of Dr. Jordan Cohen, former president of the AAMC, appeared in the June 2006 edition of Academic Medicine.
Jason Koob
Jason Koob, a current second year student recently received top research honors at Washington University’s James Barrett Brown Resident Research Day. Jason was invited to present at Washington University by Dr. Susan MacKinnon, Washington University’s Shoenberg Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Jason took a year off between his first and second year of medical school to pursue research at Washington University with Dr. MacKinnon. His work focused on the ability of axons from a foreign nerve to make novel neuromuscular junctions with a denervated muscle.
Luke Miller
David Dickerson
John Fox
Second year student Luke Miller was recently awarded the Joseph Collins Medical Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a medical student involved in cultural endeavors outside their medical studies. Prior to coming to the Pritzker School of Medicine, Luke spent three months in Italy studying Italian literature and an additional three months in Guatemala studying Latin American literature. Luke joins third year student Dave Dickerson and fourth year John Fox, who are also Joseph Collins Medical Scholarship award winners and recently received grant renewals of their scholarship.
Yang Shen
Yang Shen, a current second year MSTP student received the 2006 Student Scholarship in Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke from the American Heart Association. She will receive a stipend to support her current research with Dr. Stephen Roth, Associate Professor of Anesthesia & Critical Care. Dr. Roth studies the role that EPO plays in protecting neurons from injury during acute retinal ischemia. Yang will contribute to this research by determining whether protein kinase subtypes, AKt2 and AKt3 mediate the EPO-neuroprotection.
Current third year medical student, Adam Suchar had three papers published over the summer. He was first author on the article “Ready for the Frontline: Is Early Thoracoscopic Decortication the New Standard of Care for Advanced Pneumonia with Empyema?” which appeared in the August issue of The American Surgeon. This work emanated from Adam’s summer research experience with Dr. Donald Liu in the Pediatric Surgery Department of University of Chicago.
Adam Suchar
Adam was also the co-author of two articles which appeared in the July 15, 2006 edition of Cancer Research. The articles titled “Bone Sialoprotein Mediates the Tumor Cell-Targeted Promoetastic Activity of Transforming Growth Factor Beta in a Mouse Model of Breast Cancer” and "Chemokine (C-C Motif) Ligand 2 Mediates the Prometastatic Effect of Dysadherin in Human Breast Cancer Cells" resulted from Adam’s research as a Cancer Research Training Fellow at the NIH. Adam worked at the NIH for two years prior to his matriculation at the Pritzker School of Medicine.
